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Railway Slaughter in England.

The cable brings us a report of a most terrible railway calamity which occurred yesterday in North Wales. It reads very much like the accounts of the recent disasters which have occurred on our own roads. The Irish mail train, while on its way to Liverpool from Holyhead, owing to the misplacement of a switch, was thrown into a train of petroleum trucks at Abergele Station. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on August 22, 1868, on Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Railway Slaughter in England. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe